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Oratory, the art of public speaking, is a formal practice of eloquent speech making that utilizes elements of language to influence an audience. In short, it is rhetoric on a public stage. Dr. King, an impassioned orator, made use of a wealth of rhetorical techniques in order to communicate the messages of equality, justice, and peace during the divisive and violent civil rights era.

She goes on to describe these rhetorical devices in King's "I Have a Dream" speech, using samples from the speech:

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metaphor

allusion

hyperbole.

Wright also refers to the authority, passion and rationality in King's speech that day in Washington, D.C., concluding: